Talk:Henry Ward Beecher

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 * It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery but the friction.


 * Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven


 * Every artist dips his brush into his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.


 * Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money...


 * Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.


 * He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own


 * It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.


 * Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.


 * Now comes the mystery.
 * Last words


 * The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.


 * The monkey is an organized sarcasm upon the human race.


 * To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.


 * What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way to the coffin.


 * Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?


 * Words are pegs to hang ideas on.


 * No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain it's own individual form.


 * The first hour is the rudder of the day — the Golden Hour.


 * Good-humor makes all things tolerable.